Pittsburgh Perl Mongers | Damian Conway: Sufficiently Advan

Please join us for a special meeting with Damian Conway.Please watch http://pgh.pm.org/ further details.

*Location*

CMU
Wean Hall Room 7500
Pittsburgh, PA

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Saturday, October 29, 2005
18:30

*Talk*

* Sufficiently Advanced Technologies - Damian Conway *

In module design, interface is everything. Going one step beyond this dictum, Damian demonstratesand explains several practical applications of Clarke's Law ("Any sufficiently advanced technologyis indistinguishable from magic") by presenting a series of useful modules whose interfaceis...nothing.

*Damian Conway*

Damian Conway holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is an Associate Professor with the Schoolof Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

A well-known member of the international Perl community, Damian was the winner of the 1998,1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for Practical Utility. The best technical paper at the annualPerl Conference was subsequently named in his honour. He is a member of the technical committeefor The Perl Conference, a keynote speaker at many Open Source conferences, a former columnist for"The Perl Journal", and author of the book "Object Oriented Perl". In 2001 Damian received thefirst "Perl Foundation Development Grant" and spent 20 months working on projects for thebetterment of Perl.

Currently he runs an international IT training company – Thoughtstream – which providesprogrammer training from beginner to masterclass level throughout Europe, North America, andAustralasia.

Most of his time is currently spent working with Larry Wall on the design of the new Perl 6programming language and producing explanatory documents exploring Larry's design decisions.

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